Energy, Power & Propulsion
The Griffiths ISRU‑Powered Plasma Hopper (IMPH) is a disc‑shaped planetary surface lander and hopper designed to achieve long‑range mobility on bodies where in‑situ resources are readily available. Instead of carrying propellant from Earth, the IMPH extracts local feedstock such as CO₂ from the Martian atmosphere, H₂O ice from lunar or Martian deposits, or CH₄ from Titan’s lakes.
The H₂EM‑Field propulsion system extends the Griffiths‑Canon Architecture from governed hydrogen combustion into a space‑built, field‑governed plasma engine whose performance ceiling is set solely by electromagnetic field physics. As stated in the manuscript, it is “the fastest propulsion system in the Griffiths Canon” and is designed for deep‑space sprint missions unconstrained by atmospheric ascent, launch loads,
The Griffiths Rotating Electromagnetic Nozzle (GREMN) is a propulsion‑agnostic electromagnetic augmentation system designed to work with any engine that produces a plasma or partially ionised exhaust. It is not a thruster by itself; it is a downstream collar that adds thrust, stability, and plume control using a rotating magnetic field.
The Curvature‑Stabilised Fusion Reactor (CSFR) proposes a confinement architecture that replaces the tokamak’s force‑balance, current‑driven paradigm with geometry‑driven, current‑free stability. Tokamaks rely on large plasma currents to generate poloidal magnetic fields, but those same currents create tearing modes, kink modes, neoclassical tearing modes, edge‑localised modes, and full‑scale disruptions.
The EM‑Driven Seawater Refinery is a next‑generation coastal plant architecture that treats seawater as a multi‑resource chemical feedstock rather than a waste‑laden input. By coupling electromagnetic microwave cracking with bulk desalination, the system co‑produces fresh water, hydrogen, oxygen, commercial‑grade salt, and recoverable electrical energy from a single seawater intake. As the document states,
FG‑RIC is a field‑governed ion‑transport architecture designed to extract uranium, lithium, strontium, and rare‑earth elements directly from seawater using shaped electromagnetic fields. Unlike passive amidoxime adsorption — which is diffusion‑limited, slow, and difficult to scale — FG‑RIC actively drives target ions toward capture surfaces, collapsing the diffusion barrier and enabling continuous,
Electromagnetic microwave cracking is a non‑thermal successor to steam cracking, designed to replace the world’s most energy‑intensive chemical process with a governed, field‑driven architecture. Steam cracking consumes 850–900°C furnace heat to cleave C–C bonds, accounting for 1–2% of global CO₂ emissions and suffering from intrinsic limitations: refractory degradation, coke deposition, fixed selectivity,
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